The hype around stem cells
Published: Sunday, 10-Aug-2008
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The most common use of stem cells in the near future will be in
trials testing drugs for toxicity, rather than in revolutionary
medical breakthroughs, a world expert in the social effects of stem
cell research says.
"I think there's a lot of hype around the area," Professor Andrew
Webster, a visiting professor at theUniversity of Sydney told The
World Today yesterday.
"I think we have to be very careful about saying there's a whole new,
revolutionary period ahead with stem cells, embryonic stem cells,"
said Professor Webster, who heads up the UK's Social Science Stem
Cell Initiative, an independent research body which investigates the
social implications of this new technology.
"I think in many ways what's going to happen is going to be much more
modest, so that stem cells will be used for trialling or testing out
toxicity of drugs, for example," Professor Webster said ahead of a
public lecture at the University of Sydney last night.
Professor Webster is here as a guest of Associate Professor Catherine
Waldby, a University of Sydney sociologist and biomedicine expert.
Listen to the podcast of his lecture at the University on 7 August
2008.
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Children's Neurobiological Solutions
http://www.CNSfoundation.org/
Cord Blood Registry
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The CNS Healing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CNS_Healing
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